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Amoeblog posts marked with 80's.my top 50 albums of 2011...<span style="font-size: large;"><strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blouse-cd-blouse/albums/968427"><img hspace="8" width="200" vspace="8" align="left" src="http://amoeba.com/admin/uploads/buy_stuff_here//blouse.jpg" alt="blouse" /></a></strong>#1<strong><br />
Blouse</strong> - <em><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blouse-cd-blouse/albums/968427">Blouse</a> </em>(Captured Tracks)<br />
</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last year was when I&nbsp;first got obsessed with the label <strong>Captured Tracks</strong>. Both Wild Nothing and Soft Moon ended up in my top ten last year. This is the year of Blouse, Soft Metals and Craft Spells. This label can do no wrong and keeps putting out amazing albums one after the other. This album continues the Captured Tracks tradition of capturing that early 90's shoegaze sound that I am still obsessed with. This Blouse album fits in more with the soft rock side of shoegaze and dreampop. It is more like Beach House than the darker sounds of label mates Soft Moon. It is a beautiful album and I can't get enough. </span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.amoeba.com/smoke-ring-for-my-halo-kurt-vile/albums/1653657/"><img hspace="8" height="200" width="200" vspace="8" align="left" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Brad/smokeringformyhalo" alt="kurt vile" /></a>#2<br />
<strong>Kurt Vile</strong> -<em> <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/smoke-ring-for-my-halo-kurt-vile/albums/1653657/">Smoke Ring For My Halo </a></em><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is not his first album but it really is his first album for me. This is the year that I&nbsp;fell hard for Kurt Vile. I&nbsp;could not stop listening to this album for a couple of months. There is just something about it that really got to me. The album is on the more folky side of things. Something that I&nbsp;need in my life every once in a while. He reminds me of Mark Kozelek and the Red House Painters. And listening to this album makes me remember the first time I&nbsp;discoved Mark Kozelek and was hooked for life. It really is that good. </span><span><br />
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<a href="http://www.amoeba.com/conatus-cd-zola-jesus/albums/834353"><img hspace="8" height="200" width="200" vspace="8" align="left" src="http://amoeba.com/admin/uploads/buy_stuff_here//conatus.jpg" alt="zola jesus" /></a>#3<br />
<strong>Zola Jesus</strong> -<em> <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/conatus-cd-zola-jesus/albums/834353">Conatus</a> </em>(Sacred Bones)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Zola Jesus has given me exactly the album that I wanted from her. It is majestic and beautiful and dark and moody. This album is for fans of the The Knife and Fever Ray. And while we patiently wait for the next album by The Knife out next year, this album more than fills the void.&nbsp; It is a dark emotional roller coaster. I&nbsp;really wish that artists like Bjork or Kate Bush would have moved in this direction. But thankfully we have Zola Jesus to bring us the album that we all needed in our life. A perfect album for dark and rainy winter nights. You should not live your life one day longer without Zola Jesus.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.amoeba.com/veronica-falls-cd-veronica-falls/albums/835859"><img hspace="8" height="200" width="200" vspace="8" align="left" src="http://amoeba.com/admin/uploads/buy_stuff_here//veronicafalls.jpg" alt="veronica falls" /></a>#4<strong><br />
Veronica Falls</strong> - <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/veronica-falls-cd-veronica-falls/albums/835859"><em>Veronica Falls</em></a> (Slumberland)<br />
</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Slumberland has been another one of my favorite labels this year.&nbsp;I have always been a fan but they have really done a great job these last couple of years of sort of reinventing themselves and discovering a whole new group of twee sort of artists. It is the darker side of twee. This is really a fantastic little album from these folks from London. They released a couple of singles on Captured Tracks and have now given us this perfect pop masterpiece of a debut album.&nbsp;</span><br />
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Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:15:59 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2011/12/pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword/my-top-50-albums-of-2011-.htmlThe Art of the LP Cover- Roots Of Jersey Shore Pt. 2<div style="text-align: center;">If you happened to miss the first gallery click <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2010/11/the-gone-world/the-art-of-the-lp-cover-roots-of-jersey-shore-pt-1.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>http://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2010/11/the-gone-world/the-art-of-the-lp-cover-roots-of-jersey-shore-pt-2.html
Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:30:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2010/11/the-gone-world/the-art-of-the-lp-cover-roots-of-jersey-shore-pt-2.htmlThe Art of the LP Cover- Roots of Jersey Shore Pt. 1<div style="text-align: center;">Bridging the gap between <strong>Tony Manero</strong> &amp; <strong>The Situation</strong>, this gallery features covers from the <strong>mid 80'</strong>s to <strong>early 90'</strong>s with focus on the <strong>dance pop</strong> / <strong>freestyle</strong> genres. Special thanks go to <strong>Chris Matthews</strong> for fishing most of the collection out of our vast 12&quot; section.</div>http://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2010/11/the-gone-world/the-art-of-the-lp-cover-roots-of-jersey-shore-pt-1.html
Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:20:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2010/11/the-gone-world/the-art-of-the-lp-cover-roots-of-jersey-shore-pt-1.htmlout this week 7/27 & 8/3...best coast...arcade fire...max headroom...tv carnage...<img width="250" vspace="8" hspace="8" height="193" align="left" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Brad/klee_irwin.jpg" alt="klee irwin" title="Klee Irwin...creator of dual action cleanse" style="border: 3px solid purple;" /><br />
I have been a TV addict for most of my life. It is not really something that I am embarrassed or ashamed about -- it is just the way things are. I try to balance out my life with other activities, and I make sure that I still devote some good time to outdoor activities like hiking and exploring. I also make sure I actually read a real book every couple months or so. But TV is really something that I&nbsp;love very much and I proudly admit it! I can't really imagine my life without it! These days I actually spend most of my TV hours watching movies on TV or TV on DVD but I did spend many hours in the 80's and early 90's watching a lot of actual television. I didn't have cable growing up so I spent most of my time watching the regular network shows and I was also fascinated by infomercials and weird talk shows. These were often the only things on late at night. I&nbsp;could easily watch an hour of a weird religious televangelist show. I had no problem watching an hour-long show about a food dehydrator or steam cleaner. I also loved wat<img width="250" vspace="8" hspace="8" height="170" align="right" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Brad/televangelist" alt="jan crouch pink hair televangelist" title="Jan Crouch!...late night televangelist with amazing hair!" style="border: 3px solid pink;" />ching public access shows that you could only get locally, and then there were always some amazing moments on local news stations -- those moments that you could not believe just happened.&nbsp;I always worried these moments would be forgotten forever. How could I ever catch these amazing bits of late night talk shows and public access shows again? Luckily the amazingly brilliant <strong>Pinky Carnage</strong> has put these moments on some great DVD collections. He has answered my prayers! <a href="http://www.tvcarnage.com/"><em><strong>TV Carnage</strong></em></a> has been putting out DVDs for a couple of years now. This is one of those times where I feel like something was put out on DVD&nbsp;just for me! I really could not have wished for anything better. I have collected them all and really could not wait to get a hold of this newest collection. <strong><em>Volume 6 </em></strong>has just been released and it is devoted to work out videos. It is called &quot;<strong>Let's Work It O</strong><img width="200" vspace="8" hspace="8" align="left" style="border: 2px solid pink;" alt="when television attacks" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Brad/when-television-attacks.jpg" /><strong>ut!!!</strong><br />
<br /><div style="clear: both;"><a style="font-size:13px;" href="/blog/2010/08/pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword/out-this-week-7-27-8-3-best-coast-arcade-fire-max-headroom-tv-carnage-.html">Continue reading...</a></div>http://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2010/08/pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword/out-this-week-7-27-8-3-best-coast-arcade-fire-max-headroom-tv-carnage-.html
Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:05:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2010/08/pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword/out-this-week-7-27-8-3-best-coast-arcade-fire-max-headroom-tv-carnage-.htmlWINNER IN THE SO BAD IT'S GOOD CATEGORY: CREATING REM LEZAR<div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344">
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Easily the hands down winner in the &quot;so bad it's good&quot; category is the above clip from the ultra cheesy late 80's &quot;children's musical&quot; film <em><strong>Creating Rem Lezar,</strong></em> in which Rem and friends (channeling <strong><em>Godspell</em></strong>?)&nbsp;sing, dance &amp;&nbsp;prance their way through Central Park and other parts of New York&nbsp;City. <br />
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This clip and the others from <em>Creating&nbsp;Rem Lezar,</em> including the one in which a mannequin of Rem comes to life and then, donning a blue mullet, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoEmbXXOrlI">sings two kids to sleep</a>, are so bad and so wrong on so many levels, and yet, for some strange reason, they are addictive viewing.&nbsp; <br />
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Written, directed, produced and choreographed by <strong>Scott Zakarin</strong> and made in 1989, <em>Creating Rem Lezar </em>went straight to video but never made it as far as DVD. Recently rediscovered thanks to YouTube, this hard to find VHS is much coveted and apparently fetches $50 or more online. Meantime you can view numerous clips from it on YouTube, found under titles like &quot;bad 80's video&quot; or &quot;Worse 80's video.&quot;<br />http://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/10/jamoeblog/winner-in-the-so-bad-it-s-good-category-creating-rem-lezar.html
Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:20:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/10/jamoeblog/winner-in-the-so-bad-it-s-good-category-creating-rem-lezar.html